"If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves"

"Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die"

"As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us"

"The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it"

"There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves"

"Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows"

"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven"

"The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground"

"The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven"

"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing"

"Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves"